conflate

Definitions


[kənˈfleɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- combine (two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one
(e.g: the urban crisis conflates a number of different economic, political, and social issues)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘fuse or melt down metal’): from Latin conflat- ‘kindled, fused’, from the verb conflare, from con- ‘together’ + flare ‘to blow’




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